• bastion@feddit.nl
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    8 months ago

    You do have a right to be alive, if you can gather the food to put in your mouth and get shelter (in most climates), and defend yourself from predators.

    ‘Earning a living’ is just some way people can do that. But you still need to defend against the predators.

    • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      8 months ago

      Take your eugenics pseudoscience bullshit and shove it up your ass.

      There is no if. We’re a social species, if everyone thought like you, people like Stephen Hawking would have never lived a full life.

      We lose so many good people to the “earn it” mentality.

      Babies don’t come out the womb walking. Nor are people born with the ability to hunt. Everything you have was given to you by another. Your mother didn’t ask you to earn it until you could, and whether or not people can is largely determined by their environment.

      Not to mention, how fucking arrogant do you have to be to demand someone earn the right to live? Who do you think you are, God?

      And then there is the little problem of capitalism rewarding people who “earned it” who are actually bad for society. Unless you think people like Biden and Trump somehow are more competent than most people? Both are rich and powerful people. Yet one is a genocidal asshole and the other is a con man. You’d have to be crazy to think they earned their power. I’d wager there are many homeless people that do less harm to the world than either.